Well, the New Year has got off to a great start (not!) as my PC is experiencing more problems. After last week’s failure to boot up Windows, which was rectified by copying the system files from a floppy disk via DOS, my PC now seems to have some kind of mechanical failure. It starts to boot up into Windows, but then there’s a high-pitched noise, the hard drive stops spinning and the system shuts itself down. It has loaded Windows successfully a couple of times, but not for long. I’m guessing that the hard drive has some sort of physical damage and needs replacing, but as always there’s some data that I need to retrieve.

I’m writing this on a really, really old laptop, which is no fun at all I can tell you. If you’ve emailed me in the last couple of days, please bear with me as I try to get everything working again…